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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 14 > Jack Cover, 88, invented the Taser stun gun

Jack Cover, 88, invented the Taser stun gun

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
February 14, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Jack Cover, who invented the Taser stun gun now used by thousands of police agencies as a better way to subdue suspects, has died. He was 88.

Cover, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died of pneumonia Feb. 7 at Golden Coast Senior Living in Mission Viejo, according....

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